Senior Staff Engineer - Backend & Cloud Systems

Staff Engineer About Us At ANZ, we're applying new ways technology and data can be harnessed as we work towards a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers. Our community of over 5,000 engineers is key to making this happen, because technology underpins every part of our business - from delivering tools, apps and services for our customers, to building a bank for the future. About the Role As a Staff Engineer in the NZ Domain, youll play a crucial role in driving endtoend technical strategy, design, and delivery for highimpact platforms and products, operating as a senior individual contributor with broad influence across multiple engineering squads. You will design scalable, resilient, compliant, and costeffective systems while elevating engineering standards, managing technical debt and technical risks, and ensuring alignment with enterprise engineering patterns and practices. As the recognised technical authority, you will guide teams on how solutions should be built, mentor and build capability across senior engineers and squads, and partner closely with Product, Security, and Operations to ship businesscritical platformsdrawing on deep engineering mastery, strong systems thinking, and exceptional stakeholder management. Banking is changing and were changing with it, giving our people great opportunities to try new things, learn and grow. Whatever your role at ANZ, youll be building your future, while helping to build ours. Please note that while this advertisement is for a single role, there are multiple vacancies available for this position. Role Type: Permanent Role Location: Bengaluru Work Hours: General Shift (Hybrid\Blended) What will your day look like Lead and participate in design discussions, and decision-making forums that influence multiple squads. Provide handson technical leadership, including writing highquality code, reviewing critical PRs, and guiding senior engineers through complex problems. Dive deep into system performance, reliability, scalability, and security aspectsidentifying risks early and driving systemic improvements. Partner with engineering leads to estimate, plan, sequence, and deliver long-range initiatives across multiple workstreams. Drive technical roadmaps, identify tech debt, and prioritize modernization or platform initiatives with long-term impact. Host and lead technical workshops, knowledge-sharing sessions, and design guilds to uplift engineering maturity. Participate in incident reviews, root cause analysis, and drive remediation for recurring or systemic issues. Communicate regularly with leadership to provide clear updates on progress, risks, and decision trade-offs. Mentor senior and mid-level engineersmultiplying expertise across the engineering org. Ensure compliance standards, data privacy, and secure-by-design principles are woven into every stage of development. Collaborate across teams to balance innovation, reliability, and speed, making high-quality technical decisions that align with business goals. What will you bring Must have 12+ years of engineering experience with deep design and Tech Lead competency. Expertise in designing high scale, distributed systems, including microservices, event-driven architecture, API platforms, and data-intensive systems. Hands-on proficiency in any backend languages (Java/Kotlin/Go/Node/C#) and strong understanding of cloud-native patterns (containers, messaging, caching). Extensive experience in leading Java development at an enterprise level. Extensive experience working on solution design and API design. Experience in Java development at an enterprise level (Spring Boot, Java 8+, Spring) Extensive experience leading API development and integration (REST/JSON, Kafka, message queues) In depth technical knowledge of database systems (Oracle, SQL Server). Strong experience in public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), Kubernetes, Terraform/IaC, and modern CI/CD. Solid grounding in observability, SRE principles, incident management, and performance engineering. Knowledge of secure coding, compliance frameworks, and enterprise-grade governance. Provides governance over solution design within the squad to ensure it aligns with the Architect and follows established patterns and best practices. While it is expected that other squad members will also contribute to or complete solution design, in all instances it is expected this role will provide a level of governance. Detailed Description Responsible for ensuring all designs are presented and approved by the relevant Tech Area design forum and Technical Review Forums. Proven ability to influence Design and engineering strategy across multiple teams without formal authority. Experience driving cross-team programs, platform modernization, and technical initiatives with significant business impact. Ability to communicate clearly with senior stakeholders, translate technical decisions into business outcomes, and drive